Brown gold
Today is National Tree Day* and if you head down to the Yarra River this week you’ll see the wattles along the banks dropping their blossoms onto the water in drifts and swirls turning the Yarra into a river of gold.
The Month in Cheese
This month Fair Food’s resident turophile, Isabelle Fouard, is taking our tastebuds on a trip up to the Sunshine Coast to visit the Woombye Cheese Company.
Lessons from a supermarket tomato
In the 80’s and 90’s Coles and Woolies’ dominated the grocery market and fruit and veg got very boring. Epitomised by the industrial tomato – it was the supermarket produce buyer’s holy grail.
Produce anxiety
Like we do in other essential industries, we need to nurture the the new growers who will one day feed us. And while the government has its role to play, we as eaters have ours too.
A time to relish
This week, in honour of our heirloom heroes, we’re sharing tomato excitement with you!
Meanwhile down at Joe’s
If there’s one vegetable that embodies Joe Garita, who farmed here for 70 years, it’s the broad bean.
